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The empirical methodology, when adopted in reading the latest years’ events and realities in the Middle East, would definitely lead to a deducing that there is an apparent nascent political polarity in the Middle East. This perceived polarity is...
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A Lebanese man sits under posters of Imam Moussa al-Sadr, upper right, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a Shiite aligned with the opposition, upper left, and Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, center, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, May 16, 2008. For...
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